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Sue Steward Ade, HD, Pana, Illinois, wrote the historical fiction novel “Displaced: A Family Without a Country,”  a powerful family saga of endurance, love and hope in the midst of war. This book stands out for its emotional authenticity, its exploration of propaganda’s psychological impact on children, and its portrayal of a family’s determination to protect their daughters.

Victoria Harr, DF, Payson, Arizona, wrote “Awakening Your Spiritual Senses.”

This book is Victoria’s journey of how the Holy Spirit works in her regarding spiritual senses. He wants to reveal Himself to you in this way too. It will introduce you to at least five spiritual senses God wants to activate. Each teaching, followed by Impartation and Activation exercises, will launch you into another facet of who He is and  will awaken and develop your spiritual senses as you interact with Him.

God gave us five natural senses of hearing, seeing, touching, tasting and smelling.  We also have spiritual senses which are invisible and exist, usually undetected, until God imparts and activates them within us. When they intersect with our natural senses, we experience His Presence and more of the spiritual realm in a fresh way.

Lisa G. Dill, G, Wilmington, Delaware, wrote “Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River.”

The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States―and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and agricultural water supplies, parched regions in the basin far from the river have proposed piping water from the Missouri to alleviate their own water shortages.

In an attempt to better understand the river and its place in the American imagination, Lisa G. Dill set out with four of her mother’s cousins on a 40-year-old pontoon boat on a modern voyage of discovery. The hope was to sail nearly 750 river miles from Sioux City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Missouri, a goal whose success was by no means assured, given the rickety state of the family vessel. From departure―a day late, because the motor wouldn’t start―until she got off the boat, Dill bears witness to the river, its flora and fauna, the efforts to control it, and its history, along with the misadventures of a crew of “relative strangers” and the boat’s tenuous viability on one of the world’s most powerful rivers.

In “Around the Bend,” Lisa teases out the cultural and environmental history of the Missouri and urges readers to change the way they think about America’s rivers and the landscapes through which they flow.

Pam Wormington, KW, Monett, Missouri, wrote “Books, Blessings and Bonus Daughters.”